In A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane, Madeline Kearin Ryan examines the therapy model of the nineteenth-century asylum. Using the Worcester State Hospital as a case study, Kearin Ryan analyzes the institution's methodology of targeting patients' minds through their senses, which the administration believed could cure insanity.
In A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane, Madeline Kearin Ryan examines the therapy model of the nineteenth-century asylum. Using the Worcester State Hospital as a case study, Kearin Ryan analyzes the institution's methodology of targeting patients' minds through their senses, which the administration believed could cure insanity.
Madeline Kearin Ryan is project development librarian at the Worcester Historical Museum.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1: "A State of Conscious and Permanent Visibility": Sight as an Instrument of Cure and Control Chapter 2: "As Syllable from Sound": The Sonic Dimensions of Confinement Chapter 3: The Smell of the Insane: Disciplining the Olfactory Domain Chapter 4: Dirty Bread, Forced Feeding, and Tea Parties: The Uses and Abuses of Food Chapter 5: "Curious Relics" and "Drafty Corridors": The Material World of the Asylum
Chapter 1: "A State of Conscious and Permanent Visibility": Sight as an Instrument of Cure and Control Chapter 2: "As Syllable from Sound": The Sonic Dimensions of Confinement Chapter 3: The Smell of the Insane: Disciplining the Olfactory Domain Chapter 4: Dirty Bread, Forced Feeding, and Tea Parties: The Uses and Abuses of Food Chapter 5: "Curious Relics" and "Drafty Corridors": The Material World of the Asylum
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